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This is normally held annually, either at [[Gransden Lodge]] or OUGC's home airfield at RAF [[Bicester]]/RAF [[Weston-on-the-Green]], and is the traditional opportunity for us to show our skills against "the other place".
The rules are simple: teams of 5 6 attempt to soar locally for up to 50 minutes, gaining one point per minute, climbing for 2 points per 100 ft, and then to land before the 50 minutes are up as there is then a deduction of 6 points per minute. Flights which receive no points for time are not allowed to claim height gains.
Women on the Varsity team can get a half-blue if they already have perfomed are holding a 1 hour solo flightBGA Bronze certificate. Men can also get a half-blue from if they are holding a BGA Silver certificate, or if they are holding a BGA Bronze certificate and fly the Women's Blues Committee (subject to approval from MBC)highest-scoring soaring flight on any given day.
== Results ==
''This record is incomplete. If you know any details of past varsity matches, please add them to this Wiki, or email the current [[Committee#Current committee|Webmaster]].''
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
! Year !! Venue !! Result
|-
| 2023 Jul || Gransden Lodge || Oxford 753 Cambridge 612|-| 2022 Jun || RAF Weston-on-the-Green || Cambridge 584 Oxford 302|-| 2021 Jun || Gransden Lodge || Cambridge 333 Oxford 279|-| 2020 || colspan="2" | ''— Cancelled due to Covid-19 —''|-| 2019 Jun || RAF Bicester ||???
|-
| 2018 || Gransden Lodge || Cambridge 814 Oxford 802
| 1997 Aug || RAF Bicester || Oxford 80 Cambridge 40
|-
| 1996 || colspan="2" | ''— Cancelled—''
|-
| 1995 May || Gransden Lodge || Oxford 1083 Cambridge 1054
== Rules ==
=== Normal rules General Rules ===
=== Bad weather Scoring Metric for Soaring Flights ("Normal rules ") ===
<ol>
<li value="1">A point is awarded for each minute of flight up to 50 mins, after which six points will be deducted for each minute over. The lowest score which can be recorded is zero points.</li>
<li value="2">Two points are awarded for each 100 feet of height gained after the launch, provided the climb is maintained for 500 feet. Climbs less than 500 feet do not gain height points.</li>
<li value="3">A [[GPS trace|GPS or barograph trace]] must be submitted for a flight to be awarded height gain points. If this is not available, only time points will be awarded for the flight. It is the responsibility of each team to ensure that the trace of each scoring glider is captured.</li>
<li value="4">Instructors may fly in scoring gliders and may verbally assist the competitor. They may not physically fly the glider at any time. The only exception to this is to maintain normal safety.</li>
</ol><br>
=== Scoring Metric under Bad Weather ("Spot landings") ===
''As agreed at the 2019 Varsity Match''
<ol>
<li value="1">A marker (or markers) shall be set up on the ground, at an appropriate landing area, visible to all pilots from the air. The markers should indicate a line, perpendicular to the intended landing direction, and must not interfere with the safety of landing.</li>
<ol style="list-style-type:lower-alpha"><li value="a">The intention is for pilots to touch down and roll to a stop as close to the line as possible.</li></ol><br>
<li value="2">The use of wheel brake during the landing is prohibited, except to maintain normal safety. Any landing which uses the wheel brake is disqualified.</li>
<li value="3">All flights are to be taken in two-seater gliders, with an instructor sat in the back to verify the lack of wheel brake. The instructor may not physically control the glider during flight or during landing, except to maintain normal safety.</li>
<li value="4">The (unnormalized) score of the flight is given as 3000/(30 + ''d''), where ''d'' is the shortest distance, measured in feet, between the landing line and the glider's main wheel at its final resting position.</li>
</ol><br>
=== Scoring Metric under Bad Weather ("Circuit flights") ===
''As agreed at the 2012 Varsity Match''
== Past reports ==
=== 2019 ===
Report by Charlie Brooker.
==== Day 1 ====
Scrub! Despite getting up very early, the decision was made to scrub Tuesday due to low cloud. CUGC instead watched a brief display of old cars on site at Bicester and played card games.
==== Day 2 ====
[[File:Varsity2019Day2.jpg|thumb|right|The team on Day 2.]]
Despite a poor start to the morning with solid cloud at 900ft and broken at 600ft, the weather improved over lunch. While the weather wasn’t kind enough to gift us with thermals for our standard height-gain competition rules, the cloud did lift enough for the bad weather rules: spot landings!
The rules for this event were decided upon beforehand as follows: A marker would be set up on the ground, visible to all pilots approaching for landing. The pilot would then have to touch down and roll to a stop as close to the line as possible. Wheel brake was strictly forbidden; all flights were taken in two-seaters and an instructor would be sat in the back of each flight to verify the lack of wheel brake. The distance between the glider’s main wheel and the marker would then be measured in Chris’ feet (Chris-ft). This distance was then added to 30 then 3000 would be divided by this result to give the score (i.e. with a distance, d, the score = 3000/(30+d) ), thereby giving a higher score for those who land closer to the marker.
There was time for each team to attempt their first two spot landings on Wednesday afternoon, leaving Cambridge with a score of 86 and Oxford with 68.
==== Day 3 ====
[[File:Varsity2019Day3.jpg|thumb|right|Both teams on Day 3.]]
Thursday saw a markedly warmer weather; perfect for the beach but still no soaring to start with. So, it was agreed that the first round of spot landings would be completed, by which time some soaring may be possible. Cambridge scored a decisive lead in the spot landings, with CUGC flights from Hugh and Bonan both scoring above 60 points.
As hoped, the sun came out and thermals began just before lunch! OUGC’s Chia-Man getting a 32-minute duration flight to give Oxford a clear soaring lead to begin with. The conditions were tricky; making one wrong decision left you low, scratching for height-gains and looking to land. OUGC scored very highly after lunch as well managing two 35-point soaring flights from Philipp and Arthur. CUGC’s best soaring flight was Timo’s 21 minutes.
Once the thermals had stopped and the hangar had been packed, the task of tabulating the scores and discovering the winner began.
Warning: boring technical details in this paragraph… To enable easier comparison between the scores for spot-landings and the scores for the soaring flights, both sets of scores were scaled and translated individually. This was done in such a way that the mean for the spot landings was 100 and the standard deviation was 15; the same was true of the set of soaring flight scores. This meant that the scores for each team could then be summed to give the total scores. Also, since Oxford’s sixth team member was unable to come to Varsity, Cambridge selected their five best soaring flights and their five best spot landings.
==== Summary ====
After significant calculations, the final score was: '''Oxford 1009 – 990 Cambridge''', a win for Oxford. CUGC would like to send a big “Thank you!” to OUGC and Bicester Gliding Club for hosting us; the clubhouse is very nice and the airfield seems to have an unlimited number of landing areas!
We look forward to hosting OUGC at Gransden in summer 2020.
{| class="wikitable"
! Team !! Pilot !! Normalised Spot Landing !! Normalised Soaring !! Total
|-
! scope="row" rowspan="6" | Cambridge
| Charlie Brooker
| 111.1
| -
| rowspan="6" | 990
|-
| Bonan Zhu
| 113.2
| 89.3
|-
| Chris Barrott
| 111.1
| 84.0
|-
| Timo Wilken
| -
| 102.7
|-
| Hugh Hudson
| 112.6
| 96.0
|-
| Hayk Saribekyan
| 83.9
| 86.6
|--
! scope="row" rowspan="5" | Oxford
| Chia Man
| 85.9
| 117.4
| rowspan="5" | 1009
|-
| Philipp
| 92.1
| 121.4
|-
| Francesca
| 107.1
| 96.0
|-
| Arthur
| 110.6
| 121.4
|-
| Antoine
| 72.4
| 85.3
|}
=== 2018 ===
! scope="row" rowspan="4" | Oxford
| Artur Doshchyn
| 239139
| rowspan="4" | 432
|-
| 88
|}
==== Day 3 ====